REVIEWS & SAMPLES

HARVEY BAINBRIDGE LIVE 2000
- CDR - Solo
This is a live CD-R, but the music is taken directly from the
mixer and is
superb quality! After a free verse introduction by festival emcee
Thom the
World Poet, Harvey launches into the "Black Hole" and
shows himself to be a
top notch creator of some very cosmic electronic space music!
The music
itself is sensational and this performance is a typically spaced
out
affair... long tracks, great synth layers, and some excellent
Harvey scene
setting as his intense spoken word vocals deftly guide listeners
through the
cosmic realms created by his music.

RED SHIFT -1996
- CD - Solo
8 tracks of spaced out cosmic trippyness! Science Fiction writer
Steve< Palmer contributes a story of a cyber pilot's visit to
an earth which is controlled by dolphins. From the first track
"Solar Drive Down" you know you're in for an aural delight
of another time and space! By track 2 you'll know you are listening
to a master electronic artist as he creates a story in aural vision.
Highly recommended to fans of spaced out cosmic-ness!

TRACK LISTING - Solar Drive Down / ..and
he Smoked his Pipe and Talked to Them till the Last Whiff and
then his Head Disappeared in a Cloud / Cygnus Loop / Blue Giant
/ Horseshoe and the Swan / 1,000% Solution / Long Lines at the
Double Helix Bar / Out on the Surface

INTERSTELLAR CHAOS -
1993 - CD - Solo
Total spaced out cosmic music from one of the main people responsible
for the "space" in the spacerock element of Hawkwind.
Titles like "Mistiness in Orion's Head" and "In
the Wake of Passing Clouds" gives you some idea where your
head will be transported to! Harvey wrote, performed, & produced
all the tracks, which are all instrumental. A must have for Harvey
Bainbridge fans!

The Alman Mulo Band, under the leadership
of Hawkwind bass and synth player Harvey Bainbridge, have been
going for years - yet few Hawkwind fans have even heard of them!

The band was usually Harvey and Norman
Alman - along with a few other contributing musicians such as
Phil Deacon, Richie Winearls, and Grant Oatley. Besides being
obscure, their music is difficult and hard to categorize even
though the line-up gives a clue to their sound... a fusion of
spacey synths, tribal percussion, and all around general weirdness.

CASSETTES ONLY

MAMISSI - 1983
DREAMTIME
INVISIBLE WARRIOR

ORISHA - 1985
(Cassette) - Released on CD in 1994
Harvey Bainbridge (Hawkwind) is one half of this duo in which
he creates electronic soundscapes while partner Norman Alman adds
percussion, vocals, & guitar. Orisha opens with a terrific
piece "Electonique" which is reminiscent of Jean Michel
Jarre (apart from the weirdness going on somewhere in the background)
while the track "Too Late" combines relaxed synth packages
with a hypnotic refrain. This hypnotic feel is prominent on the
remainder of the album, particularly on "Automind" which
also has the tribal percussion associated with the band's sound.

AFRODIZIAC
- 1990 (Cassette) - Released on CD in 1993
This eccentric release takes ethnic electronics in a whole new
and different direction and has an even stronger tribal feel than
the earlier material. Obviously trying to be evocative of hot,
sticky African nights, this CD is an entertaining listening experience
of journeys through semi imaginary lands. It's jam-packed with
fascinating jungle noises, warm Funky rhythms, a chilling blend
of animal noises and environmental sounds that join voices to
create a groovy, easy listening sound. This is purely there to
entertain you - but there's still enough of an edge to make it
as dangerous as losing your way and wandering off into the jungle!

TRACK LISTING - Intro / Cinshe Bane / It's
Up To You / It Could Be Day / "Water / What's In It For Me?
/ All At Sea / Peaches Are Free / "Warriors Of Ancient Times",
"Say Good bye", "No Hay Calabaja".

DIAMONDS & TOADS
- 1994 - CD
The CD "Diamonds and Toads" is as strange as anything
they had done previously - particularly "To Hell In A Handbag"
which is an eerie synth piece with sampled dialogue of people
talking about guns. "Smart Drinks in the DNA Lounge"
is another very weird one while the following track "An Integrated
Smart Dream" is a very chilled and very trippy synth piece
with saxophone from guest musician Dave Fisher.